Read my mind : young children, poetry and learning / Fred Sedgwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sedgwick, Fred, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Poetry.

Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--Case studies.

Poetry--Authorship--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Reader-response criticism.

Learning, Psychology of.

Local Subjects:

Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing. The book begins with an introduction outling the importance of poetry. It discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Introduction: Most precious words; 2 I see me in her eye': Learning about the body; 3 In the silences': Learning more about living; Two central issues: clichés and drafting; 4 Introduction: A fresh look at the world; 5 Martians, Riddles and Snapshots; 6 The dragging of dead thrushes': Writing about nature; A note on writing about the human-made environment; 7 Introduction: Me and the rest of the world; 8 Death and other obsessions; 9 The stamping rocks and the squeaking birds': Fantasy

10 Where do you come from?': The humanities11 You are the beautiful snow that falls in Nebraska'; 12 Children responding to poems; Appendices; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-76359-X

1-134-76360-3

1-280-31983-6

0-585-45346-2

0-203-43939-2

9780203439395

OCLC:

226376295